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School board votes to replace four communications contracts with district app and website platform
Summary
The board approved a contract to adopt Apogee (an education communications platform) to consolidate multiple district communications services into a single website/app system; district staff said the cost is roughly equivalent to existing contracts and will add two‑way messaging and automatic translation.
The Alachua County School Board unanimously approved a contract on May 6 to adopt a consolidated communications platform (presented as “Apogee”) to replace four separate district services for messaging, newsletters and web hosting.
Why it matters: The platform will centralize district and school web content, mobile app distribution, mass messaging (including emergency alerts), multilingual two‑way teacher‑parent messaging and newsletter distribution. District staff said the system will…
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